Saturday, November 3, 2012

"Heartaches"--Ted Weems Orchestra (1933)

I think this is one of the best uptempo jazz recordings of the pre-Swing Era. Ted Weems and his Orchestra did this one on the Victor label in 1933. Fourteen years later he and the band cut the same song again and it became a Gold Record, although the '47 version was more mellow. Elmo Philips is the whistler in the recording. But I bet you already knew that.

2 comments:

Its a great piece though, I really like it, very jolly and perfect to tap dance to [as I am doing now as I type]. The sound is purely benevolent, happy and without anything even slightly sinister about it at all....excellent, thanks for posting it Doug.

Your Robot defences here are very difficult to breach today by the way!